Rockaway film festival
Upcoming events
Submissions are Open.
Send us your films by March 31 to be considered for our eigth annual festival.
bringing cinema back to the peninsula.
Rockaway's last operating movie theater closed in 1996, leaving the peninsula as the largest cinema desert in all of NYC. Since our founding in 2018, we have put together more than seven different cinema venues for our community to gather in the dark, by the light.
Our Sponsors
Rockaway Film Festival would like to thank VBX™~Vernam Basin Terminal for generously hosting us at the Arverne and Annex Cinemas in addition to BBX™~Barbadoes Basin Terminal for contributing to such.
We are proud to be sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry. Rockaway Film Festival made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Rockaway Film Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Art. We receive additional support from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.